According to a bulletin from Janelle Monae's MySpace, she will be performing in Santa Monica, CA on November 29. The venue is Dakota on 1026 Wilshire Boulevard. Doors open at 7 PM. For free entry, you can RSVP to LIST[at]LionessLA.com.

Janelle Monae's Gap promo campaign has gone live on a special MerryMixIt! site. She is featured in a pair of remake commercials. The first is "Winter Wonderland" where she is joined by a dancing Jon Heder. Unfortunately, the video embedding features appears to need a little work, so I am not going to embed it into this post. However, you can watch it here.

The second is "Jingle Bells," (ArjanWrites.com was right) where she participates in a mega mix of the classic that also features Trey Songz, Flo Rida, The Dixie Chicks, Freddy Rodriguez, Romany Malco, Jason Biggs, Heder, Selma Blair, Rainn Wilson and Sandra Bernhard. Watch it now.

In addition to viewing the commercials, you can also create your own mix of "Jingle Bells" by selecting the people you want to see through their Merry Mixer. It's limited in flexibility, but you can choose Ms. Monae as the singer two out of three times (for the chorus and first verse), which will allow you to see and hear more of her than you did in the official commercial. For your viewing pleasure, I mixed this up and it's available now. Judging from the link that they gave me, mine is the ninth mix to be created.

In all, I'm really liking this campaign. Good sound, good visuals. It's a great opportunity for Ms. Monae.

ArjanWrites.com reports that Janelle Monae will be featured in the "Merry Mix It" holiday ad campaign for Gap stores.

According to the press release, the campaign is slated to debut online, in Gap stores and in movie theatres, on November 13.

While ArjanWrites.com notes that Janelle will be participating in a special remake of the holiday classic, "Jingle Bells," the press release indicates that it will be just Flo Rida and Trey Songz. At any rate, the song will presumably be on the "Merry Mix It" website on Thursday.

According to Diddy's MySpace, Janelle Monae will be featured in Rolling Stone's "Hot Issue," on stands November 28.

The "Fantastic Edition" (as previously reported) of Janelle Monae's "Metropolis: The Chase Suite" was released on iTunes on October 28. It features an alternate, green cover. In addition to the 7 tracks on the "special edition," it has the following:

8. "Violet Stars Happy Hunting! (The Jetson's Mix)"
9. "Violet Stars Happy Hunting! (Live)" (Video)
10. "Sincerely Jane (Live)" (Video)
11. "Many Moons (Extended Version)" (Video)

The Wondaland Arts Society blog mentioned that Janelle Monae was featured in the November 1-2 issue of The Wall Street Journal. They have a scan and the article is online, as well.